Genemind Biosciences Company Limited

Direct Genomics Co., Ltd.

Shenzhen Mindray Bio-medical Electronics Co., Ltd.

Zefei Jiang

Zhiliang Zhou

Qin Yan

Huan Jin

Weibin Xu

Linsen Li

Ruitao Sun

Songzhen Zhang

Ping Wu

Guangming Wang

Jiahong Xu

Yang Zhou

Jianfeng Xu

Jiao Zheng

Liangjin Ge

Jinhong Qiu

Jifang Qi

Lei Sun

A vibration damping structure (), a detection system and a sequencing system. The vibration damping structure () is used in the detection system. The vibration damping structure () comprises a main body () and a support body (), the main body () is connected to the detection system by means of the support body (), the main body () comprises an imaging module (), an upper layer structure (), a lower layer structure () and an intermediate structure (), the imaging module () is mounted on the upper layer structure (), the lower layer structure () bears the upper layer structure () by means of the intermediate structure (), and the natural frequency of the main body () is greater than or equal to √{square root over (2)} times the internal excitation frequency.

Vibration dampening structure, detection system and sequencing system

A method for identifying a base in nucleic acid, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product, and a system. The method for identifying a base in nucleic acid comprises: mapping a coordinate of each bright spot in a bright spot set corresponding to a template onto an image to be inspected, and determining the position of a corresponding coordinate on said image (S); determining the intensity of a signal at the position of the corresponding coordinate on said image, the intensity being a corrected intensity (S); and comparing the intensity of the signal at the position of the corresponding coordinate on said image with the size of a first preset value, and determining a base type corresponding to the position on the basis of the comparison result, so as to achieve base calling (S). The method may quickly and accurately identify a base, and achieve the determination of an order of nucleotides/bases of at least part of a sequence of a template.

Method for identifying base in nucleic acid and system

A method and device for image registration, and a computer program product. The method includes performing, based on a reference image, a first registration of an image to be registered, including determining a first offset between predetermined areas on the image and the reference image, and moving all bright spots on the image based on the first offset; performing, based on the reference image, a second registration with respect to the first registered image, including merging the first registered image and the reference image, calculating the offset of all overlapped bright spots in the predetermined area on the merged image to determine a second offset, two or more bright spots distanced by less than a predetermined number of pixels being one overlapped bright spot, and moving, on the basis of the second offset, all bright spots on the first registered image, thus implementing the registration of the image.

Method and device for image registration, and computer program product

A nucleic acid loading device, including a housing, a carrying module, a motion module, a liquid circuit module and a control module. The motion module includes a support platform, first and second driving mechanisms, and a carrying member. The liquid circuit module is configured to control a reagent to flow into and out of a reactor. The control module is connected with the motion module and the liquid circuit module, and the control module is configured to control the first and second driving mechanisms, the liquid circuit module and the temperature control unit. A first face of a semiconductor cooler heats or refrigerates during operation, providing heat for an accommodating seat through a heat conducting body such that the reactor can be at different ambient temperatures. The cooperation between the motion and liquid circuit modules may achieve automation and industrialization of loading a sample into the reactor.

Carrying module, nucleic acid loading device and use thereof

An optical system including a first light source, a first lens, and a light splitting module, wherein the light splitting module has a first splitter, a second lens, a first camera and a second camera, the first lens is configured for receiving a first light beam from the first light source and collimating the first light beam onto a sample, and for receiving and collimating a light beam from the sample, the second lens is configured for focusing the collimated light beam from the first lens to the first camera and the second camera, the first splitter is configured for splitting the focused light beam from the second lens into a second light beam and a third light beam, the first camera is configured for receiving the second light beam, and the second camera is configured for receiving the third light beam.

Optical system, method for calibrating optical system, and sequencing system

A method and device for detecting bright spots on an image. The image is acquired from a field of view where a base extension reaction occurs, multiple nucleic acid molecules with optically detectable labels exist in the field of view where the base extension reaction occurs, and at least some of the nucleic acid molecules appear as bright spots on the image. The method includes preprocessing the image to obtain a preprocessed image; determining a critical value to simplify the preprocessed image to obtain a simplified image, determining a first bright spot detection threshold on the basis of the preprocessed image, and identifying candidate bright spots on the image on the basis of the preprocessed image and the simplified image, including determining a pixel matrix that satisfies at least two of conditions as a candidate bright spot.

Method and device for detecting bright spots on image, and computer program product

The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for imaging. The method for imaging objects using the system for imaging. The system for imaging comprises a lens. The objects comprise a first object, a second object and a third object located at different positions on a first preset track. The method for imaging comprises: allowing the lens and the first preset track to move relatively in a first predetermined relationship to acquire a clear image of the third object using the system for imaging without focusing, the first predetermined relationship is determined by a focal plane position of the first object and a focal plane position of the second object. The aforementioned method for imaging is high in imaging efficiency and is capable of fast focusing according to the first predetermined relationship even if focus tracking fails so that the blurring of a photographed image due to defocusing is avoided.

Imaging method, device and system

The disclosure discloses an alignment method, device, and system. The alignment method includes: converting each read into a set of short fragments corresponding to the read to obtain a plurality of sets of short fragments; determining a corresponding position of the short fragment in a reference library to obtain a first positioning result, wherein the reference library is a hash table constructed based on a reference sequence, the reference library includes a plurality of entries, one entry of the reference library corresponds to one seed sequence, and the seed sequence is capable of matching at least one sequence on the reference sequence, a distance between two seed sequences corresponding to two adjacent entries of the reference library on the reference sequence is less than a length of the short fragment; removing a short fragment positioned on any one of the adjacent entries of the reference library in the first positioning result to obtain a second positioning result; and extending based on short fragments from the same read in the second positioning result to obtain an alignment result of the read. The alignment method can efficiently and accurately process and position sequencing data.

Alignment methods, devices and systems

Disclosed are a positioning method, a positioning apparatus and a sequencing system (). The sequencing system () comprises an imaging assembly () and a mobile platform (), wherein the imaging assembly () comprises an optical axis (OP), the mobile platform () bears a reaction apparatus (), the stroke of the mobile platform () in a first direction is controlled by means of a limiting switch, and the stroke comprises a first limit. The method comprises the steps: (a) moving, by a first step distance, the mobile platform () in a direction approaching the first limit, until the distance between a current position of the reaction apparatus () and the previous position of the reaction apparatus () is less than the first step distance; (b) moving the mobile platform () in a direction that is the opposite of the moving direction in step (a); (c) moving the mobile platform () in the moving direction in step (a), until the mobile platform () reaches the first limit; and (d) moving, by a preset distance, the mobile platform () in the direction that is the opposite of the moving direction in step (a), so that the positions of the optical axis (OP) and the reaction apparatus () satisfy a preset relationship. According to the method, the quick and precise positioning of the mobile platform () can be realized by means of moving back and forth in the first direction, such that the positions of the optical axis (OP) and the reaction apparatus () satisfy a preset relationship.

Positioning method, positioning apparatus and sequencing system

The present disclosure relates to base sequence determination. A base sequence determination system includes a fluid device and an optical device, a reaction device includes a first component and a second component, and a repeated executable unit is defined as: a second biochemical reaction&#x2014;a first biochemical reaction&#x2014;photographing. A method includes, after initiation steps, using the fluid device to perform the second biochemical reaction and the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the first component, while using the optical device to photograph the sample on the second component. The initial steps include: using the fluid device to perform the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the first component, using the optical device to photograph the sample on the first component after the first biochemical reaction, and using the fluid device to perform the first biochemical reaction of the sample on the second component.

Method for controlling base sequence determination, base sequence determination system and control device

A method for constructing a sequencing template based on an image, a device, and a system. The image includes first, second, third and fourth images of one same field of view corresponding to base extensions of A, T/U, G, and C respectively; the first, second, third and fourth images respectively include images Mand M, images Nand N, images Pand P, and images Qand Q; the method includes combining any two of the images M, M, N, N, P, P, Q, and Qto perform bright spot matching, and enabling such images to participate in the combination for at least one time to obtain a plurality of combined images including first coincident bright spots, and merging the first coincident bright spots on the plurality of combined images to obtain a bright spot set corresponding to the sequencing template.

Method for constructing sequencing template based on image, and base recognition method and device

The present disclosure provides a method and a system for processing an image. The method includes: an image pre-processing step, including analyzing an image input to be processed so as to obtain a first image; and a spot detecting step, including analyzing the first image so as to compute a spot determining threshold; analyzing the first image so as to acquire a candidate pixel spot, and judging whether the candidate pixel spot is the spot according to the spot determining threshold; computing a sub-pixel center coordinate of the spot and an intensity value of the sub-pixel center coordinate if yes; and discarding the candidate pixel spot if no. According to the method, the image is denoised in the image pre-processing step, such that a calculation in the spot detecting step may be reduced. In addition, the accuracy of determining the image spot may be improved.

Method and system for processing an image comprising spots in nucleic acid sequencing

A nucleic acid sequencing system is provided, including a base provided with a clamping platform, a reagent storage unit, a fluid control unit, a mobile platform and a total reflection microscope thereon; the clamping platform being provided with a gene sequencing chip thereon; the reagent storage unit being configured to store a gene sequencing reagent, the fluid control unit being configured to pump the gene sequencing reagent from the reagent storage unit to the gene sequencing chip, the mobile platform being configured to drive the clamping platform to move toward or away from the total reflection microscope; and the total reflection microscope being configured to detect a gene sequence of a sample in the gene sequencing chip.

Nucleic acid sequencing system

A method and a device for identifying a single molecule, a method and a device for counting a single molecule and a system for processing a single molecule are provided. The method for identifying the single molecule includes inputting time sequence of an intensity of an spot; forming a line chart of time and intensity of the spot according to the time sequence, wherein the line chart consists of a plurality of line segments; dividing the line chart into a plurality of grids in an array, counting the number of the line segments and/or ends of the line segments in each grid; subjecting the divided line chart to a line erosion according to numbers corresponding to the grids to transform the divided line chart to a simplified image; subjecting the simplified image to run-length coding to indicate connected domains; calculating an area of each connected domain and determining that the connected domain corresponds to a single molecule if the area of the connected domain is greater than a first predetermined threshold. According to the method for identifying the single molecule, the line chart of the time sequence of the intensity of the spot is processed to transform into the image, which results in a quick identification for the single molecule and a high accuracy of the identification.

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